I’m pretty aware of all the caveats about assets and the market dynamics and net worth and yada yada but uh, yeah, wealth kinda does work like that, actually…
Except for elitism, I am and post none of those things. Elitism is great when applied properly and with humility. Surely the actually most capable people should be leading things.
I’m all for seeing opinions that differ from mine, but outright ignorance that everybody is cheering is disgusting and indeed very anti-elitist in the worst way.
I can and will fix this myself though. Some lemmy clients allow hiding the scores, just unfortunately not the default client of my instance.
But go on, protect your own comfort by hiding scores rather than facing criticism head on. That’s real confidence in your ideology.
Elitism has never, and will never, be applied fairly. Hierarchies create fascism. “Capability” is never assesed neutrally, it’s assessed by existing power structures and by those in power who look and think similarly. Hence, bigotry, hence fascism, hence authoritarianism. If you believe we live in a meritocracy right now you’re either a billionaire, politician, or just a useful idiot.
Read that comment about three times and can’t figure out if that’s meant to be a bad thing? 50% of his personal wealth would leave still leave a absurdly huge sum of money.
I’m pretty aware of all the caveats about assets and the market dynamics and net worth and yada yada but uh, yeah, wealth kinda does work like that, actually…
25 upvotes, no downvotes.
Do better, lemmyverse.
I would try avoiding saying fascistic/bigoted/elitist/authoritarian things then. Just some friendly advice.
Except for elitism, I am and post none of those things. Elitism is great when applied properly and with humility. Surely the actually most capable people should be leading things.
I’m all for seeing opinions that differ from mine, but outright ignorance that everybody is cheering is disgusting and indeed very anti-elitist in the worst way.
I can and will fix this myself though. Some lemmy clients allow hiding the scores, just unfortunately not the default client of my instance.
Elon, you’re an idiot.
But go on, protect your own comfort by hiding scores rather than facing criticism head on. That’s real confidence in your ideology.
Elitism has never, and will never, be applied fairly. Hierarchies create fascism. “Capability” is never assesed neutrally, it’s assessed by existing power structures and by those in power who look and think similarly. Hence, bigotry, hence fascism, hence authoritarianism. If you believe we live in a meritocracy right now you’re either a billionaire, politician, or just a useful idiot.
Your ideology literally disgusts me.
Depends on what you mean by “wealth like that”. A 10% tax on everything he owns would be like 50% of his personal wealth.
But yeah, we can definitely do better than 0%…
That doesn’t make any sense? 10% tax on all he owns is 10% of his personal wealth.
Obviously all he owns = His personal wealth.
Definitely, 1% should be a no-brainer, 2% would be better. 😀
Personal wealth does not include investments and assets. That’s net worth.
It should include them. That seems to be part of the problem.
Read that comment about three times and can’t figure out if that’s meant to be a bad thing? 50% of his personal wealth would leave still leave a absurdly huge sum of money.
I mean that’s just 1 year.